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| Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 12:13
Congrats to IAC, who moved through the playoffs from the #5 seed to post very consistent weekly scores of 148, 147, and 153.
Final RIFC standings are posted here. I'll post links to the qualifying league results in a moment.
Meanwhile, if anyone in any of the RIFC leagues has any thoughts on possible rules changes for next year - or would like to share some experiences from 2018 - feel free to post those here while they are still somewhat fresh. |
| | | 1 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 12:26
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Final results
RIFC AAA#1
RIFC AAA#2
RIFC AA
A few observations:
None of the four #1 seeds prevailed through the playoffs. Only one of them made it to the championship game, where twilson was bested by Holt, 177-140.
The four playoff winners were seeded #5, #3, #3, and #3. (Smell a pattern?)
The best average points during the regular season were for Taxman in AAA#2: 160.2. Surprisingly, that only produced a 19-7 record and a #2 seeding. The top seed in that league was 22-4, but averaged only 147 ppg. The top seeds in the other three leagues all averaged in the 150s.
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| | | 2 | I_AM_CANADIAN
ID: 432322919
Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 14:33
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My third trip to the Finals in the RIFC, but my first one since 2009. This has always been a competitive league (I started playing Fantasy football in 2004), but I find it's especially been so in recent years. In the last 4 seasons I've played in the RIFC, my aggregated regular season record is .500 (as it was this year w/13-13). That is signifant difference from the 2000's where I twice finished with 20+ regular season wins.
Luck is a big part of any sport, but what I attribute my success this year is just staying in it / active. By the end of week 4, my team was 2-6 (tied for 2nd last place), and AVG'ing 130points/game. That wasn't going to cut it. Since my draft went pretty well from a WR standpoint, I needed to refocus on solidifying my LBs and RBs... by year end, those positions were the strength of my team, and WRs were what I was scrambling to find in the Finals week.
Although I'm super excited about winning my 1st "top league" Championship since inception, my main goal was just to get a re-invite back next year, which will be my 12th season in the "top league". Many thanks to Guru for continuing to put together a great league / system!
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| | | 3 | Doug
ID: 1571198
Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 10:19
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Congrats on the well-deserved win IAC! I look forward to attempting to dethrone you next year. :)
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| | | 5 | I_AM_CANADIAN
ID: 432322919
Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 13:05
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Adding to my Recap...
Biggest Draft Busts:
4.01 Royce Freeman - The emergence of Phillip Lindsay really came out of nowhere. He was clearly the lesser talented rookie back of the two.
10.01 Ronald Jones - Wasn't able to start him through the first 8 weeks of the year, then cut him. Huge waste.
Biggest Injury / Off-Field Misses:
1.14 OBJ - Through the first 4 weeks, he was WR37, then he came back into form (weeks 5-13 WR4), until the Fantasy playoffs, where he had a mysterious back ailment that kept him from playing in Weeks 14-16... huge disappointment, and not what you want from your 1st round pick.
5.14 Josh Gordon - I was able to start him for 7 weeks, but him almost goosing in Week 15, then being suspended in Week 16. He really left me in a bind for my Fantasy Playoffs.
9.14 Cooper Kupp - Was really disappointed to lose him after week 10. Was consistently getting targets and TDs.
Biggest Draft Wins:
2.01 Christian McCaffrey - Crazy usage #s, and great consistency (no weeks under 5FP, and only 3 under 10FP).
6.01 Tyler Lockett - WR9 on the year, some of that might be due to surrounding injuries, but he's really fun to watch and root for.
12.01 Jabril Peppers - Tackling ability and Return game usage made him an easy "plug him in" every week start. Finished the year DB8.
17.14 Matt Breida - Ended up starting him for 6 weeks. If only they could have protected him a little more.
Biggest FA Pickups:
Week 3 - Jaylon Smith - Was able to plug-in week in week out. Consistently put in 1st Tier LB #s.
Week 9 - Baker Mayfield - Cousins like many QBs that had a great first half, was struggling in the 2nd half, so it was nice to have this emerging Rookie QB (was a QB1 from week 7) come in and make 3 starts for me (including 2 in the playoffs).
Week 15 - Robby Anderson - Only had him for two weeks, but I really needed him then, and he went off in a big way, AVG'ing over 18PPG during those two weeks.
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